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Maïder Fortuné and Annie MacDonell met in 2000 while studying at Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains, in France. They have been working together since 2014. Their joint practice includes performance, writing, film and installation. Their individual practices incorporate many of these forms too, but in their collaborative work they have a particular focus on narrative as a form, feminism as a lived politics, and the ways in which language and image shape each other. Their 2015 performance “Stories are Meaning Making Machines” was presented at the Centre Pompidou and the Toronto International Film Festival, and in 2014, they produced a performance-lecture for Contact Photography Festival titled The Bird and the Cup, which they also published as a book work. In 2020, they completed the film Communicating Vessels, which has screened extensively internationally. In 2021, they completed the film OUTHERE (for Lee Lozano) and they are currently in production on their third joint film. The book “The Beyond Within,” a monograph/exhibition catalogue produced for the exhibition by the same title, was published in 2024.